A Vine Grove man faces three charges of drug trafficking after police say they uncovered crystal methamphetamine, multiple prescription medicines and more than $2,000 in cash Wednesday night during a traffic stop.

Joshua Lee Grass, 31, was arrested on charges of first-, second- and third-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, carrying a concealed deadly weapon, acquiring property from income from trafficking in a controlled substance, prescription in improper container, possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to wear a seatbelt.

A local automobile club is hosting a benefit car show this weekend at Freeman Lake Park from which a portion of the proceeds will go to gas cards for cancer patients.

The Hardin County-based Hittin’ Bottom Auto Club Inc. kicks off its 16th annual Showoff for a Cure on Saturday and the event runs through Sunday afternoon. Entry fee is $20 and for a nonjudged entry, $10.

Club founder Clyde Polk said the show is open to any vehicles, including motorcycles and bicycles.

June’s Official Kentucky State Championship Old Time Fiddlers Contest and July’s Founders’Day Festival, both at Freeman Lake Park, recorded losses while Cruisin’the Heartland basically broke even. The car cruise returned to downtown for the fourth time in late July.

The city saw a resurgence at the Heartland Festival, which added revenue from its late August showing.

Former First Lady Laura Bush planned to visit Hodgenville in 2008 to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s 199th birthday and kick off a bicentennial celebration, but had to cancel because of an ice storm.

The town, however, celebrated the day anyway. Philip Setters and other Lincoln Days coordinators are taking the same attitude toward this weekend’s festival and the federal government shutdown that could keep the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park closed.

United Way of Central Kentucky is on the lookout for volunteers interested in dedicating time to serving some of the youngest residents of Hardin County.

The organization is undertaking its fourth Project United event, beginning Oct. 28 at North Park Elementary School. Companies and individuals can begin registering to take on one of 14 various makeover projects at the school.

Though Abraham Lincoln spent only seven years of his life in Kentucky, a Lexington documentary film producer believes there are untold stories to mine from the Lincoln family’s Kentucky roots and their ties to Hardin County.

Kent Masterson Brown is pursuing the development of a film entitled “The Lincolns in Kentucky,” a 56-minute documentary navigating through the lives of the Lincolns, from the arrival of Lincoln’s grandfather into what became Kentucky in the late 1700s to the departure of the future U.S. president with his family to Indiana.